Wu Dan has been trying to decide whether or not to have a second child for about two years, since she became eligible, as she and her husband have no siblings.
The relaxation of the family planning policy might be good news for parents who yearn for a bigger family, but it adds pressure on some women who are reluctant to suffer the pain of giving birth again.
A social media campaign has been launched in China to cut down the number of newborn babies who die in the first 24 hours of life.
China's 32nd Antarctic expedition began on Saturday morning as the research vessel and icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, left a Shanghai dock. A team of 277 members between 22 and 61 years of age from more than 80 domestic institutions will make the 159-day round trip of 30,000 nautical miles (55,500 kilometers).
Liu Cixin, author of the Chinese sci-fi best-seller The Three-Body Problem, said on Saturday that science fiction writing will flourish one day in China and Turkey.
The 224 Chinese runners who flew across the Pacific to leave their footprints on the five boroughs of New York City represented a booming interest in marathon running in their home country.
As a little girl, Buni Wangxi was frail and often sick. Peking Opera was both her route to health and success.
A Peking Opera society at the Linheli Primary School in Beijing's Tongzhou district has found enthusiastic support among students and fans across the city at festivals where they have performed.
Peking Opera may have lost its place in the pantheon of popular entertainment, but devoted fans of the classical Chinese theater are looking to cultivate new appreciation among schoolchildren for a fading national treasure.
China is studying policies to help "zombie" companies withdraw from business in order to improve the efficiency of State-owned and private enterprises.
An unexpectedly early snow fell on Beijing and other cities in North China on Friday, causing traffic dilemmas for millions of people, and prompting the capital to start providing heating for residential complexes ahead of schedule.
A special exhibition about a World War II POW camp in northeastern China was unveiled in Liverpool's iconic St George's Hall on Friday.
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